beephead
Elite Member
I got me a Bandido II uMax a few days ago.
It's really purrrrty. Here are some pictures and my thoughts after a couple of test runs with it.
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Day one:
Well I finally got to take the Bandido out for its first test run today. I got in about 3 hours of detecting. It was really hot and the ground was like cement. I set the discrimination on "2", the sensitivity on "10" and the threshold at the 3:00 o'clock position and started swinging. I found 26 quarters, 31 dimes, 29 nickels and 18 pennies. At first I was thumbing the discrimination knob before I dug to see how well the Bandido's discrimination worked. It was spot on. After that I started digging all good beeps without checking. The Bandido II uMax hits super hard on really small targets and nickels. If small gold jewelry is around it will have no trouble at all finding it. Pinpointing in the discrimination mode is precise and lightening fast. The tone that the Bandido makes is really pleasing to the ear. Near the end of the test run, I found a bent rusty nail (12p) in the same hole with a quarter. I threw the nail on the ground and ran the coil over it. The Bandido didn't make a sound. I then turned the discrimination from "2" to "0" and the rusty bent nail gave out a very slight crackling sound. Then I remembered reading that Monte wrote about the Bandido having 120 degree discrimination and would discriminate out a nail at a "0" discrimination setting. I wished that I had used "0" discrimination setting during the test run. I'll do that next time. At any rate, I tested the Bandido before I left the house with a really small thin 14k ring to see where it would discriminate out. It discriminated out just past "3". No nails, smooth running and can still detect really small gold jewelry. Now that's really amazing. It doesn't get much better than that!
Day two:
I took the Tesoro Bandido II uMax out for another test run today. I really like this detector! I set the discrimination at "0", the threshold at the 3 o'clock position and the sensitivity at "10". I found some more coins (61), including a bunch of nickels (17). The ground was so hard and dry that I quit digging the deep signals. I was doing my very best to find some gold jewelry, but all I could come up with today is a small 92.5 silver ring. It was only about 2 inches deep. A few months back I found another one just like it, but it was much larger. I just can't believe how hard the Bandido hits on nickels and gold rings. I never found this many nickels before. Not even close!
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It's really purrrrty. Here are some pictures and my thoughts after a couple of test runs with it.
Day one:
Well I finally got to take the Bandido out for its first test run today. I got in about 3 hours of detecting. It was really hot and the ground was like cement. I set the discrimination on "2", the sensitivity on "10" and the threshold at the 3:00 o'clock position and started swinging. I found 26 quarters, 31 dimes, 29 nickels and 18 pennies. At first I was thumbing the discrimination knob before I dug to see how well the Bandido's discrimination worked. It was spot on. After that I started digging all good beeps without checking. The Bandido II uMax hits super hard on really small targets and nickels. If small gold jewelry is around it will have no trouble at all finding it. Pinpointing in the discrimination mode is precise and lightening fast. The tone that the Bandido makes is really pleasing to the ear. Near the end of the test run, I found a bent rusty nail (12p) in the same hole with a quarter. I threw the nail on the ground and ran the coil over it. The Bandido didn't make a sound. I then turned the discrimination from "2" to "0" and the rusty bent nail gave out a very slight crackling sound. Then I remembered reading that Monte wrote about the Bandido having 120 degree discrimination and would discriminate out a nail at a "0" discrimination setting. I wished that I had used "0" discrimination setting during the test run. I'll do that next time. At any rate, I tested the Bandido before I left the house with a really small thin 14k ring to see where it would discriminate out. It discriminated out just past "3". No nails, smooth running and can still detect really small gold jewelry. Now that's really amazing. It doesn't get much better than that!
Day two:
I took the Tesoro Bandido II uMax out for another test run today. I really like this detector! I set the discrimination at "0", the threshold at the 3 o'clock position and the sensitivity at "10". I found some more coins (61), including a bunch of nickels (17). The ground was so hard and dry that I quit digging the deep signals. I was doing my very best to find some gold jewelry, but all I could come up with today is a small 92.5 silver ring. It was only about 2 inches deep. A few months back I found another one just like it, but it was much larger. I just can't believe how hard the Bandido hits on nickels and gold rings. I never found this many nickels before. Not even close!
I like your intelligent approach to understanding and setting up your detector, beephead. I guess that comes with experience...at least I hope it does! 
